Home Care Services: Coronavirus
(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when asymptomatic testing for covid-19 will be rolled out for domiciliary care workers in England.
This question was answered on 8th March 2021
Home carers working for Care Quality Commission registered organisations are able to access weekly polymerase chain reaction tests to administer at home to help identify more asymptomatic cases and protect care recipients who are more vulnerable to COVID-19.